A while back, teachers told us that having the problems archived inchronological order by service was not all that helpful when they werelooking for a problem to match a particular math concept. So we addeda searcher to our archive pages. That worked for awhile. But I willnever forget the time a teacher asked me how to go about findingAlgebra problems involving age. Using "age" as the search termproved to be ineffective because ALL for the archived problemscontain the "age" of the highlighted submitters!

So, last year around this time, the Math Forum staff began the task ofcreating a new service for teachers who want to use problems from ourgrowing archive. The Library of Math Forum Problems of the Week[http://mathforum.com/library/problems/] is finally ready and we haveremoved the password. We are about to make the announcement on ourWhat's New page and in our newsletter. However, I wanted you to bethe first to know.

Please take a look around and let us know what you think. We valueyour ideas and suggestions. Let us know if you find this new libraryhelpful. What features would you like to see added? How will thishelp you to prepare your lessons? Please share your comments witheach other by posting to this list.

The Math Forum's Library of Problems of the Week organizes the archives of the six services for browsing by mathematics and story topic, rates problems for difficulty level, and provides for searching by keyword.

Once submissions to current Math Forum Problems of the Week (PoWs) have received responses from mentors, problems and highlighted solutions are archived in chronological order by service. Teachers, however, have asked us for an archive of problems by topic, and we've designed this Library of Problems to meet their needs.